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by Charissa Nasrallah  

            I ran my plan to have the two brothers perform at the park by a few people whose opinions I often seek to guide me to the right decisions.  Most of them approved my ideas, perhaps because I was so enthusiastic in presenting it, or perhaps it made some sort of sense since it seemed to be in everyone’s best interest.  I also ran my plan by a Senator, who agreed to meet me for a few minutes when he was in town on some business.  He told me it also seemed like a great idea and he wished me the best of luck in making it happen. 

After some more thought and careful wording, I contacted the program director for the two brother’s show as well as the man from the EPA who was helping me with the legalities of my case and hoped for the best.  The man from the EPA applauded me for my original ideas, but cautioned me to hold off on sending my plan to the man from the US Department of Labor until the park had agreed to sit down with us and arrive at a settlement.  However, I never got to send it to him at all. 

A few days later the program director for the two brothers’ informed me that the Corporation sponsoring the tour was not interested in bringing the show to the area.

This irritated me since this particular corporate chain had recently opened two, new huge stores in the area, one which had been recently built over what was once a nice patch of wetlands and a pond.

I wanted to threaten a boycott on this corporation unless they decided to change their minds, but after further consideration I figured it would only be a waste of my time and energy.  I realized if this plan was destined to work, I shouldn’t have to do so many rotten things to make it happen.  The marketing people for the two brother’s show didn’t know my situation, and perhaps they had their reasons for not wanting to come to South Carolina.  At the time, the NAACP had called for a national boycott of the state because government officials refused to lower the Confederate flag over the State Capital and a local politician had made some ignorant, public comments about the situation.

            I did not believe slavery or any form of segregation.  To me the human race was one and only benefited from having a wide variety of physical traits.  For some unexplainable reason, I believe the first people on this planet were dark skinned Africans, and I also believe that dark skin is a genetic trait that will be favored into the future.  Hopefully then the majority of people will realize that we are all just pieces of each other, just hodgepodge genetic material that has been selected over time.  Underneath we share the same organs, thoughts and ultimately spirit.   

            I felt bad that the Union Troops destroyed so much of the Historical and Natural Beauty in the South when they attacked, but I can’t say that I regret in any way that the North won the Civil War.  I personally felt that if the South Carolina government wanted to keep the Confederate Flag flying for historical reasons, an African heritage flag should be flown everywhere by it’s side.

            I can’t say I entirely blame the program director for not wanting to come to this part of the country, but it still depressed me.  I was predicting to help a lot of plan with my purposed plan, especially myself.

            I knew there were a lot of positive points to the plan I had designed, but much of it had also been build on my desires for my own fame and recognition, beyond what I had already received from the press.  Regardless, I slumped into a depression and struggled to pull myself out of it.

My job as a waitress provided me with several companions who constantly offered to console my depression with a drunken stupor, but the agony of my failures and stresses of my case would not go away. Then one day, while wallowing in my misery, I met someone with real problems and I realized I had started to become a whiner.  I realized that even though I was dealing with a little crap in my life, but there were people who worked in sewage plants and never uttered a word of discontent.  I realized it was time to quit complaining and go on.

I had produced a good plan, and I was sad I was not going to be granted the immediate chance to make it happen.  As time went on, I realized it was ridiculous to believe that the US Department of Labor could have settled my case by immediately demanding the park to comply with my intentions.  I also realized that although my plan was idealistic, it was mostly idealistic for me.   I tried my hardest to recalculate my expenses and formulate another form of compensation.

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